Clannad ~After Story~ - Extra Episode (Last year incident) Discussion / Poll

[Klashikari]

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Q: Extra episode...? What is this about? Shouldn't it be Episode 23 ?
A: As explained in the last week thread, CLANNAD ~AFTER STORY~ main story has ended with Episode 22.
Episode 23 does not follow the main plot (as it is set a year before the events of the first season occur), hence why it doesn't have any "Episode 23" in its title.

[Game8910]

I hear i can get

Spoiler for spoiler:

Kyou fanservice here

[Proto]

Well, pretty much what you would expect from an extra episode. Not much important happenning, but nevertheless cute and warming.

The preview for the next episode doesn't really tell us anything given that it only showed the faces of every character in the series, with the preview song from the 1st season. I couldn't decipher the reading of the next episode title, but here is a screenshot.

[monir]

The impression I got after watching the preview from Episode 22 is that this episode might be a recap. I hope not.

[Meatrose]

Ah, so they will air a 24:th episode as well. Damn, I was so looking forward to an announcement this week. Then again, an additional episode is always nice I guess.

[Proto]

The impression I got after watching the preview from Episode 22 is that this episode might be a recap. I hope not.

Negative. It is completely new footage.

[Littm]

YES! An epilogue! "Underneath the Green Tree" it says.

So, next episode is titled as extra or epilogue ?

The preview for the next episode doesn't really tell us anything given that it only showed the faces of every character in the series, with the preview song from the 1st season

Some kind of recap maybe ? Remember old rumours ? But I hope for something special and new with the meeting of all characters.

[Ottocycle]

Originally Posted by Littm

So, next episode is titled as extra or an epilogue ?

Some kind of recap maybe ? Remember old rumours ? But I hope for something special and new with the meeting of all characters.

My bad. We're looking at a recap episode next week. Soushuuhen = Summary/Highlights episode.

[Jimmy C]

Did they use this or the last season's OP and ED? Also, how many orbs on the title screen?

[Proto]

Spoiler for this episode:

2nd season OP. Season season end. IW-Ushio

[Jimmy C]

Spoiler:

I take it you mean second season ED? Pity, with my idea, viewers could slot this ep seamlessly before ep1 of the first season in a rewatch. Oh well, at least the IW-Ushio pic wasn't wasted as a sponsors' page after all.

[Proto]

2nd season, yes. Being a hearing oriented person doesn't help when writing.

[serenade_beta]

*nod* x 5
Yappa... Being young is good. They're best when they are young. Youth.

Spoiler for extra episode:

Prologue episode, it was... Very enjoyable. Been a while since I've seen blond Sunohara and heard Ryou talk.
After all of the gloom and doom and spirit convention end, this allowed me to end the series with good feelings. Well, it was hard to end the episode without laughing, with the last shot being absolutely surreal.
Ahoge=Aho, after all, huh... Memo memo

-Sunohara... Let's use more kanji when we write... A bunch of hiragana...

Preview:
Kyoto Animation: "It's the last episode so we decided to do a recap episode and bring everyone back one more time. It's a recap because there is no other way to bring them back. We suck at original ma *cough* MUNTO *cough* terial, after all.
Clannad over finally. Wa~i~


In the end, they never updated the OP... Maa, I guess I anticipated more than I should have from Kyoani... They aren't Shaft, after all...

[cbatty]

*Sigh* I was so hoping next weeks ep would be an OVA - something like the Tomoyo one in the 1st season.

There is so much potential to do a half season just from the missing arcs that were missed in the game (I have been reading a bit in the speculation for experienced gamers thread).

Oh well. I am grateful for what we do have. KyoAni have done a remarkable job of redacting a complex multiple path game into a linear path series. I do hope that both Clannad seasons get released in Australia on DVD. Buying them would be a small way of paying tribute to the studio for the job that they have done.

[typhonsentra]

Wait, by recap you mean a clip show?

[Ithekro]

Looks like it could be a clip show. Never seen a KyoAni clip show before.

23 was good. Looked pretty much straight from the CD Drama/Another Story save for the Kyou bits.

Lulz for the exaggerated Akio-Sanae scene number two.

[typhonsentra]

So for the final DVD they're going to charge the same price you'd pay for three full episodes for just 2 and a clip show? Sucks for the fans who buy these things, especially when you consider how cool episode 24 was for the previous season.

[Proto]

Yeah, but episode 24 from S1 got a DVD release itself so most probably they got money for it from the previous DVD sales and an increased budget pool. This time around because of how the broadcasts times played out they have to release ep.24 with the rest of the season, which means that they have to manage with whatever they have left from the series budget (probably not much, given how removed all safe guards for ep 22), and combine that with the current economical downturn, of which Japan is taking the worst part. Not a nice combination to be truthful. Given the love for their series that KyoAni is reputed to have, I doubt they are happy with this decision either, but money talks.

[Game8910]

im watching ep 24 just to see what they announce (cmon little busters)

[Ithekro]

Spoiler for Episode 23:

A slightly overwhelmed Nagisa is fine too.

Deredere Kyou is always a treat. (Demon Kyou is also a treat)

Sunohara is still just as much an idiot as ever. It looks like he was ready to obsess about tormenting Kyou during their second year, like he obsessed with proving Tomoyo was a man in his third year.

Tomoya sounds so much better here than in the Drama CD.

Ryou has so few lines...but she says them well.

Akio and Sanae....some things never change. (or get old)

Akio dramatization of girls at school.......I don't know what to say about that.

Preview:
To be honest though...aside from just images of all the cast members and a title scene...does anyone have a clue what the next episode could be about?

If KyoAni still has an artistic touch, then it could be a epilogue and the scenes we have the the preview are Tomoya remembering things while sitting with Nagisa and Ushio.